Big In The Stans Episode 8: Almaty strip club

In episode 8 of the Big In The Stans tour, White City plays a club with “go-go dancers.”

ALMATY IS TRULY the Dubai of the ‘stans. Skyscrapers and cars abound and very few people walk. Kazakhstan’s resources and size have made it wealthy, but the wealth trickles down to very few. Drive into the countryside and you’ll find the same poor villages as in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Apart from crossing the border, you’ll see most of our initial footage is shot at night. Almaty has a thriving club scene, much of it on the seedier side. We were invited to play a rock club with “go-go dancers” that turned out to be a strip club. As well as strippers, karaoke is incredibly popular here.

About three days into our arrival in Almaty, we read news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. Most people in Almaty either did not care or believed it was propaganda disseminated by the Americans.

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